Re: Getting access to the entire attributes string

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Scott,
   http_url_post_xml() feeds the data it gets from the HTTP request into
   Expat, and lets Expat parse it.  The original XML code is not passed to
   your application, only the result that came from parsing it.
   You could potentially rebuild the string by spinning through the
   attributes and doing a little string manipulation to put the tag name
   and attributes back together...   but the original data is not
   available.
   You could, of course, use http_url_post(), this simply saves the XML
   data to a file.  Then you'd have all of the source, and could use
   http_parse_xml_Stmf() to parse it.
   I wonder, though, why you'd want to parse the XML but then want to get
   the original XML code instead of a parsed response?  That seems like a
   strange thing.

   On 5/20/2014 3:58 PM, Scott Mildenberger wrote:

   I have looked through the archives but can't find an issue like I am
   trying to solve.


   I have a web service that I am calling with http_url_post_xml() that
   returns XML and one of the elements is like this (from SoapUI):


   <Entry Id="91" Version="18" TruckName="1050T"....lots more....
   JbusParamsAudit="7071999"/>


   It contains no value and only attributes, there can be up to 350 of
   them.  I know how to use http_nextXmlAttr() to parse out the attributes
   but for the time being I would like to just store this raw response.
   Later I can worry about parsing out the attributes I want.  I have been
   unable to figure out how to get ahold of the text for that entire
   entry?  Do I need to change to using http_url_get_raw() and parse the
   response myself?  I would like to stick with http_url_post_xml if
   possible because it simplifies getting other elements in the response.


   The data comes out daily and is only available for a limited time, that
   is why I just want to store the raw response for now so I don't lose
   any data until I have a complete solution in place.


   Any suggestions on how to get the text of the entire `Entry' element?

   Thanks,


   Scott Mildenberger

   Programmer/Analyst

   Davis Transport Inc.

   Missoula, MT

   406-728-5510 x128


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